I have a PS5 sitting unplugged. I was so excited to get it in 2020, but now I have not touched in a year and a half.
Amazing how a steamdeck just crushes modern day consoles. You cant beat that game catalog.
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I was really motivated to get one to play the Demon's Souls remake, beat it 3 times in a week, and since then I've probably spent more time updating the system and collecting the monthly ps+ games than actually playing.
I gave up after PS4 had no games and the few it did have were ported. Except Bloodborne, but emulation caught up and runs it better.
Now I'm just PC/Deck + Nintendo. Xbox I dumped after the 360.
Or just PC/Deck and a used Switch 2 later is my new plan. It's going to cost too much new.
Maybe not interesting, but it was a big change from being the guy who owned every successful console and some oddballs imports from the 70's onwards at one point.
I'm pretty similar in the console to PC shift. Pretty much had all consoles and handhelds through Xbox 360/Switch/PS3.
I still miss the Wii controls (I hate moving my neck for anything VR) but I don't think with Switch 2 motion controls/mouse will get me back on Nintendo. Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime Trilogy were awesome on Wii. Only reason I bought a Switch was for Zelda but I didn't care for it and eventually gave my switch away, never finished BoTW. I don't think Metroid Prime 4 is enough for me to justify buying a whole console. So I'm planning to get a steamdeck instead of the switch 2.
If we ever see a world where nintendo games are on steam and you don't need a nintendo account to play them, I would totally buy up all my favorite games and play them on PC.
Otherwise I really don't care for the business model of re-buying the games I already own, just re-released on the latest console. Don't care for paying for online access. And the few games they have really aren't compelling enough for me to justify buying a console when I have hundreds of unplayed games in my steam library. (my humble bundle subscription snowballed my library lol)
Yeah we're on the same page haha.
The steam backlog included. I actually started chipping away at mine last year inspired by a tuber challenging themselves to get through all of theirs in a dramatically arbitrary amount time for the clicks.
Basically doing the same without the pressured deadline:
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go alphabetically not picking and choosing or it'll be all crap you keep skipping over to pick from at the end.
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play for two hours minimum
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if you don't like the game by then, drop it forever.
I got it down from 304 games to...126 as of yesterday lol. Not humble bundle here, but the very first steam sales. The worst are the old indie games publshers bundled in that I didn't seek out myself. Most simply do not hold up if they ever really did.
I know the exact video you're on about and it was great
You can't beat that game catalog
It's impossible to beat "every game ever made." Which while it may not play some games now, the platform will eventually play those, too. One way or another.
Same. I was so hyped for the hardware, but the games never came. I guess it’s because Sony went all-in on live service games that ended up getting cancelled instead of backing lots of single player games like they traditionally had. Steam Deck took my PS5’s place and eventually even got me into PC gaming to play what my Deck couldn’t — and PC gaming on Linux at that. I doubt I will buy any future PlayStations now, not after how this generation went. There hasn’t been a single PS5 game that I wanted to play that hasn’t come to PC anyway. Like you said, can’t beat the catalog. Plus modding capability and backwards compatibility.
The shelf would only have Bloodborne and Demon's Souls on it
Well, there's also Persona 5 Royal. But, like Bloodborne and The Demon's Souls remake, it's just a different version of an earlier game...
That reminds me, I need to buy Skyrim for the PS5
And GTA V!
They keep pushing GTA V for free on PSN, except that it's not GTA V. Period. Full stop. It's GTA :O without the single player and absolutely nothing on the store page itself says this. You only find out when booting it up. 😬
Wow, playing Grand Theft Auto, ditching the single-player, and only doing Online... It's like ordering a pizza and only eating the crust.
Bloodborne is a PS4 game so it would just be Demon's Souls.
Spiderman 2
I assumed it was commenting on PS5 pushing digital copies
Most of my "PS5" games are actually PS4 games with extra features/enhancements when played on the PS5.
I own only 1 game that was built for and is only available on a PS5: Demon's Souls. Which, other than Bloodborne, was the primary reason I got the console in the first place.
It doesn't just sit around gathering dust, like some others have stated. Since my PC is getting old and increasingly more unsupported by newer games, if I pirate a thing/play a demo on PC and it runs poorly (and I also like it enough to want it), I'm more likely to get it on the console if it's not a multiplayer game.
And wasn't that a remaster of a PS3 game?
It's a whole ass remake, so more than a remaster, but yes.
I haven’t had a console outside of the switch since early Xbox one and ps4 era. There just hasn’t been a reason for me to buy one since the ps3/360 era
I mean, there’s a fair reason most exclusivity is dead.
There’s a lot of cool PS4 games that just don’t run well on the PS4. So, it’s a much nicer experience to get them on PS5, at 60fps, full resolution, with instant load times.
It’s also honestly kinda nice that someone with low income can buy a used PS4 and still join for most of those games online.
I don't know a single person that has a PS5. Apparently they sold well, but to who?
I got one, I know 3 coworkers that have one. And I have at least 5 friends with one too.
I also have about half the amount of ps5 games that I have PS4 I think too. Physical at least anyway. I have more digital not counting PS+ Extra.
I'm also not a console only guy. I have a bazzite PC for a lot of games. But I prefer the big story ones to be played on my living room on my big 4k TV with my Dolby atmos setup. Plus every now and then you get an absolute gem like Astro Bot or the visual wonder if the Demon's Souls remake (how have they not given Bloodborne the same treatment like what the heck)
Pretty much all of my friends have one lol. To each their own though
I didn't mean it as an insult but a genuine question. I still play games online to this day with friends joining in on PS4 and Xbox One. I bought Stray when it came out on the PS4 and that was less than three years ago. And not ever seeing or hearing about anyone buying a PS5 it seems to me like the Xbox One/PS4 generation is still going today.
I wasn't going to buy it. But I'm a fan of Yoshi-P's work, so when he released FFXVI on PS5, I bought the bundle. So far that's the only game I've played and beat on PS5. I do use the PS5 to play some gacha games like Genshin Impact and Infinity Nikki (and previously Star Rail before dropping that).